Space technology is having an unusually busy decade: cheaper launches, far more satellites, renewed missions to the Moon, and national programmes expanding fast. This page follows rockets, satellites and missions from ISRO, NASA, ESA and the private companies now doing much of the work, along with the infrastructure that makes it useful on the ground — communications, imaging, navigation, and the growing use of orbit for computing. Indian missions get particular attention, because they are under-covered relative to how much they do.
Francis Halzen turned a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice into a telescope that catches neutrinos arriving from the most violent places in the universe.
Google has launched a prototype satellite carrying its TPU chips, the first step in testing whether AI computing could one day run on sunlight in space.
NASA has picked Modulate Space Corporation to build a 5G network with built-in Wi-Fi 6 for the Moon's surface, to support its planned Moon Base. The work starts with a 'network in a box' tested in the lab and ends with a demonstration on the Moon, with the contract running to the end of 2028.